Dune (1984)
David Lynch’s 1984 Dune. The maligned one. Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matched.
Patrick Stewart
This archive gathers the films featuring Patrick Stewart reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Charlie’s Angels (2019)”, “Dune (1984)”, “Excalibur (1981)”, and “I, Claudius (BBC, 1976)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Patrick Stewart serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Charlie’s Angels (2019)
Charlie’s Angels (2019) is the second reboot of the 1976 television series and one of the most commercially unsuccessful spy-action films of the late…
Excalibur (1981)
Excalibur is the definitive screen adaptation of the Arthurian legend and one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s. John Boorman directed…
I, Claudius (BBC, 1976) — Review
I, Claudius is one of the greatest television productions ever made. The BBC series ran twelve episodes in 1976 and adapted Robert Graves’s novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God. The production budget was approximately three hundred thousand pounds, which was modest even by 1976 BBC standards….